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Works on ministries which will aid the local church in the success of its mission. This ministry will oversee such areas as:

Church Redevelopment and Restart

Coaching Clusters

Congregational Consultations

Diverge

Health Plans for Churches

Institute for Servant Leadership

Leadership Training Events

Church Planting Endowment

Church Planting Initiative

Older Adult Task Force

Church Health will explore and implement other ministries deemed beneficial to support the health and welfare of our local congregations.

Church Health Ministry

 

Natural Church Development

Essentially the program has the congregation take a ninety question multiple choice survey. This survey is compared with over 4.2 million surveys already compiled. The results from the survey focus attention on the eight quality characteristics of Natural Church Development. These eight characteristics are:

  1. Empowering Leadership

  2. Gift-oriented Ministry

  3. Passionate Spirituality

  4. Functional Structures

  5. Inspiring Worship Service

  6. Holistic Small Group

  7. Need-Oriented Evangelism

  8. Loving Relationships

Each congregation is then told which area to focus their attention to provide both church growth and continual spiritual incline of their members.

Please call 800-369-5890 or e-mail Bill for more information about Natural Church Development.

ABC's of Church Management

The ABC’s of Church Management has established the following directional statements to govern its ministry.

Mission Statement: The ABC’s of Church Management exists to provide current and researched information pertaining to the management of the local church.

Vision Statement: The vision of the ABC’s of Church Management is to

Assist churches to think strategically about risk management issues.

Bring balance between protection and vital ministry.

Communicate broad-based effective stewardship principles concerning people, property, and money.

Institute for Servant Leadership

- Maturing the Christian Leader.

- ISL seeks to teach, train and resource church leaders to be effective in their ministry in obedience to the Great Commission.

- ISL is governed and operated by a Board of Directors composed of leadership from the five Church of God regional offices of: Michigan, Western Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio.

For information contact Pastor Herb Shaffer.

For more information and an application form, visit their Web site - www.iservant.org.